William lloyd



UNITED STATES PATENT QEEIGE.

WILLIAM LLOYD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO GIBBONS L. KELTY, OF SAMEPLACE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,037, dated December19, 1871; antedated December 16, 1871.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM LLOYD, of the city and State oi' New York,have invented an Improvement in Cornices for VVindow-Curtains; and thefollowing is declared to be a correct description thereof.

Window-cornices have been made of wooden moldings with ornamental endand center pieces; but usually they have to be made up to the eX- actmeasure for particular windows, hence in the general trade difficulty'is experienced in keeping on hand a proper stock to supply the varyingwidths of windows. Besides this, changes are often made in thefurnishing of houses, and a cornice fitted to one window cannot beapplied to another of a different width.

The object of this invention is to provide for the contingenciesarising` in business and in the use of cornices for Window-curtains bymaking them with movable center pieces and detachable end pieces, sothat the molding itself can be sawed off at any desired point, themovable center ornament slipped upon the same, and then the endornaments connected to said molding, thus adapting the cornice to anywidth of window.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is an elevation of the rear of the cornice withone of the ends removed. Fig. 2 shows the side of said end piece. Fig. 3is a cross-section of the cornice at the line .t x.

The molding a or body ofthe cornice is of any desired shape sectionally,and the surface is to be varnished, gilded, or otherwise finished. Thecentral ornament b, is to be of any desired shape or character, butinstead of being fastened permanently to the molding a, as usual, thesame is slipped upon the said molding; and to form the guide for thesame I employ a groove, 2, in the upper edge of the molding ot, intowhich pass the slide blocks attached at 3 to the back of the ornament b;and a clamp-slide or half box, d, eX- tends from the ornament b over thetop and back edge of the molding u. It will now be understood that theornament b can be slipped upon the molding a and moved to the center ofthe cornice, regardless of the length of said molding a. The ornamentalend pieces e c are of any desired shape and conliguration, but they areformed with recesses of a size and shape adapted to receive the end ofthe molding or body a, such recesses being made as shown at f in theside of each end piece coming toward the body of the cornice.

By the use of these removable end pieces the cornice can be easilyfitted to place, because the molding a, only requires to be sawed oil'at the proper length and then the ornamental ends ap'- plied to thesame; and in consequence of the molding passing into acorrespondingly-shaped recess it is unnecessary to employ glue oradhesive material. A small wedge or screw, however, may be used toprevent the parts separating in handling, hence the cornice can beeasily constructed for any width of window, or changed t0 adapt it to anarrower window.

I am aware that a cornice has been lmade with a center piece and twoseparate side moldings, the parts being adjusted by slides and screws,and that the end ornaments have been fitted in a similar manner. In myconstruction of cornice the molding forming the body is of onecontinuous length, and upon this the center ornament slides, and thelength ofthe cornice is regulated by sawing o" the molding and insertingits ends into the recesses of the ornamental end pieces. In thisconstruction the cost is lessened, and the person putting up the cornicecan easily adjust the length by sawing oli' the molding if too long.

I claim as my invention- The cornice for a window-curtain, made with anornament fitted to slide upon the continuous molding forming the body ofsaid cornice, substantially as set forth, and in combination therewith,the detachable end ornaments made with recesses to receive the ends ofthe molding a., as specified.

Signed by me this 15th day of May, A. D. 1871.

WILLIAM LLOYD.

Witnesses:

CEAS. H. SMITH,

